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38 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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A repetition of the same consinent sound in a line of poetry
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Assonance
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A repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry
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Onomatopeia
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A word that sounds like it means
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Imagery
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Describing something that appeals to the senses; most is sight
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Metaphor
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Comparison without the use of "like" or "as"
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Simile
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Comparison that uses "like" or "as"
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Foot
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Basic unit of meter; stressed or unstressed syllable
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Scansion
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Analysis of a poem to determine rhythm and meter
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Refrain
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Group of lines or line that is repeated at intervals
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End-Stopped Lines
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A line that ends with a pause or punctuation
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Run-On Lines
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A line that goes on to the next line
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Free Verse
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Very irregular rhythem; no rhymes
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Caesura
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Pause within a line of poetry; for effect
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Frame Device
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Opening of a story in a different voice than the narrator
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Stanza
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Group if lines that form a unit (paragraph)
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Idyll
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Work or poem describing a simple, pleasent, rural scene
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Italian Sonnet
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14 lines, iambic pentameter, 1 octave, 1 sestet, ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
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Elizabethan Sonnet
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14 lines, iambic pentameter, 3 quatrains, 1 couplet, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Occasional Poem
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A poem written for a specific event
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Elegy
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A poem of mourning for someone, or a reflection of death
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Lyric Poetry
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Poetry that describes the feelings of the author; has emotion and feeling
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Narrative Poem
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Tells a story
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Explication
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A detailed analysis of what the poem means and how it accomplishes this
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Rhetorical Question
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Question that does not require and answer
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Rhetorical Device
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Techniques used by a writer to heighten the effect of the speech
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Restatement
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To state an idea in other words
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Repetition
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To state an idea in the same words
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Exclamations
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Highly emotional or provacative statements
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Appeal-To-Emotion
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Powerful imagery; inflammatory language
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Call To Action
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Urges the reader to do something
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Aphorism
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Short, whitty statement
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Almanac
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Annual collection of statistics and information
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Satirical
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Holding something up to ridicule
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Pseudonym
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False name; disguised name
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Self-Made Man
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Rags to riches story
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Treatise
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Formal discussion of the principles of something
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Moral Perfection
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To live without commiting any faults or to follow a list of virtues
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